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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people were dissatisfied with the user experience, finding it frustrating and ineffective for learning. Customers frequently encountered issues with the product, reporting that it often presented irrelevant or repetitive words and failed to adapt to their vocabulary level. The website itself was widely criticized for being outdated, boring, and difficult to navigate. Some people were dissatisfied with the service, mentioning that the program punished users for knowing words or for trying to skip ahead. Conversely, a small portion of people felt that the app was helpful for improving vocabulary and found it to be an easy and interactive tool for learning.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

When I got the question wrong because i misclicked, a scary monster named Jayden drove his bus here and membeaned everywhere. He also forced me to eat the burger in vegas called the stay tuned burger.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

OMG MEMBEAN IS SO DUMB, A 5 YR OLD MAKE THIS BS LIKE HOW IS A OFFICIAL SITE SOBAD!! IM 12 AND I COULD MAKE SOMETHING BETTER THAN THIS ABSOULOUTE BS!!!! I'M GONNA FIND WHOEVER MADE THIS DUMB WEBSITE, G... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Jeffery Dhamer (the world famous cannibal) came out of the screen when I got the word, "Тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновые" wrong. MIND YOU, I am taking English membean. Lebron, t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was just doing my membean until I got a word that said "epstien and Benjamin netanyahu island" and I got it wrong. After that I flowkirkenuinely got jumped by the memboner combined with Epstein's so... See more


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  1. Educational Institution
  2. Education Center
  3. Private Tutor

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Membean equips teachers with innovative tools to help their students build a robust vocabulary. Students learn words in engaging ways and retain what they learn in long term memory


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

259 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I hate membean.

I have never felt more suicidal in my life doing membean. I learn words that I will never once use in my life. I truly hate memeban and hope it gets removed from the modern schooling system.

23 November 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was membalustrously Membeanming my…

I was membalustrously Membeanming my Memblozy, when I became distracted and claimed that the word "supermilkydairymilking" meant "getting in your empty bathtub covered with figgy pudding and just laying there with a smug look of satisfaction plastered on your face". The Memboner then immediatly appeared behind me and used his expertise in vocabulary to memsplode me into a pile of Memblickle bits. Overall amazing experience and I almost membleared my maliprop.

22 December 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

dihh

my dih is to big mooooaaaannnnn that's what membean gave me when I went to practice my gramer.

1 November 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

67/10 I like cream

It happened two days ago, I was just doing my membean like my teacher assigned. That's when everything changed. I was just messing around, having a little bit of fun, until I got one wrong. My minutes on screen changed to say "Dubious minutes" and then it started giving me words like "LeBron's veiny ahh dih 🍆💦💦, sybau gurt, and a barbershop haircut that cost a quarter. I didn't know what was happening.
A few minutes passed of me getting these strange words when the memboner flew out of the screen. It whipped me across the face and began membeaning all over me. It kept going for what felt like hours until pookie LeBron came and whipped out his rock hard veiny ahh skiboner dihh. He began creaming all over the memboner until it stopped membeaning on me. The memboner then turned it's attention to Lebron and they began to fight the great cream war. They seemed to be equals, both of them creaming all over the other until they both couldn't cream anymore.
Then, Diddy came out and began to oil up. The memboner got so scared of Diddy that it retreated back into membean and I was free from the curse. Thank you Lebron and diddy for creaming on me and saving me from the memboner! 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦

27 September 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Anomaly Warning

As many people may now know a keter class anomaly known as the "memboner" has appeared. We advise extreme caution when using the website Membean.com. Many victims have reported that when they get a question wrong the "memboner" appears and membeans on them. Our foundation is investigating the anomaly and are on the hunt for it. The official database will update to include this anomaly shortly. Thank you for your time.

3 November 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What the SCP Foundation has to say

I would like to talk about the new "Entity" known as the Memboner. It is a phenomenon that the SCP Foundation has classified as Keter. Some information, like its origins, are classified. The Memboner is an entity that appears physically in front of you when you get a question wrong on the learning platform, Membean. The exact appearance of the Memboner is unknown, but we can assume what it looks like by the varying reports given by the reviewers on Trustpilot.com. The Memboner is a creature that has 67 girth and is usually around 2-3 feet tall in most circumstances. We have gathered from the reviews that the Memboner will membean all over the person who got the question wrong. This whole event is triggered only by getting a question wrong on membean. The SCP Foundation calls this the Gürtelangriff Event. Most people say that the experience of being membeaned on was positive, while the review itself was negative. Because of this the SCP Foundation believes the Memboner has brainwashing abilities that activate through the Gürtelangriff Event, specifically when the victim is membeaned on. The SCP Foundation has yet to give the Memboner an archive number. Research into the Memboner is still being worked on. If anyone reading this knows any valuable information, contact the foundation.

31 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The memboner flew out at me

The memboner flew out at me
I got a question wrong because lebron was calling me the noise from my phone was distracting. The word i got wrong was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The memboner flew out at me gave me 67 gallons of mustard and 41 pounds of mangos. He also offered to cut my hair for just a quarter. He was a very nice guy, I think his name was Adrian

30 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

memboner experience

When I got the question wrong because i misclicked, a scary monster named Jayden drove his bus here and membeaned everywhere. He also forced me to eat the burger in vegas called the stay tuned burger. Keep in mind this happens every time u get a question wrong. If you try to use your calc (slang for calculator), you will get turned into the skibidi elon musk mechanism.

30 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Why Membean is for the Tryhards

GURL, is your English teacher forcing you to do Membean too? Well here's the most accurate review that you'll find on this planet.

NUMBER ONE: Bro this is legit useless, like if I'm being so for real right now this has helped me do absolutely nothing, except when someone says something like "luminous" or "malignant" all my brain can think of for the next 10 minutes is, "WOW THEY USED A MEMBEAN WORD". AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S LITERALLY A TIMER, like buddy you really expect me to look at a picture and be able to guess the word WITH NO HINTS WHATSOEVER??? Not happening especially since you give my ADHD ridden brain one minute to answer?? Buddy I'm more likely to be staring out the window at a bird, or trying not to laugh with my best friend than try and guess that a picture of a document means "treatise"?

NUMBER TWO
The layout and function of this website GARBAGE. Like girl what do you mean if I was trying not to choke to death, or I was putting lip gloss on for over a minute that my teacher gets notified of it and it's considered, "dubious" (WOW I USED A MEMBEAN WORD), and my grade automatically goes down like 6-7 percent? And not to mention that this website is the most boring thing you'll ever see in your life, and pretty much the only thing it's teaching you is the art of manipulation. Let me explain: My brother is a junior, and I'm a freshman, which means I just started this year. My brother would constantly come home and complain about this vocab site named Membean, and poor foolish me was like, "Okay I read a lot, the vocab won't be hard, things is going to be the easiest thing like ever, he's so wrong about this being the worst thing in the world." Little did I know that I would be spending my Sunday evenings at like 9:45 pm, trying to do 30 minutes, and hoping that my teacher won't notice that it wasn't on 3 different days, but I know that my sorry butt cheeks are cooked, and my grade inevitably drops a whole letter grade because of this useless crap... Please send help I'm so done with this. And do the English teachers really expect kids to spend 15 minutes of their hard earned time ON THREE DIFFERENT days EVERY SINGLE WEEK?? Buddy, hell to the no, people only get 3+ sessions of Membean done every week if they're a total Tryhards and they're trying to look cool, but in total reality, they're just aura farming...

NUMBER THREE
When am I even going to use this BS, like let's be so for real right now, do you really expect me to walk up to my lunch table, open my lunchbox, and say, "Wow look at my so very eloquent lunch?" Buddy, if you think that, then you need some serious help. And not to mention it gives you the same words over and over again, so the worst part, is that you aren't even learning anything whatsoever, and it's just useless crap that's tanking my English grade. So yeah that's my review on Membean, 10/10 for useless crap that nobody needs, 0/10 for potential learning opportunity, if I could give it 0 stars, I would... Gbye

28 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is so bad it should be zero stars.

This is so bad it should be zero stars.
And
In theory, Membean is supposed to help students learn vocabulary efficiently and meaningfully. In reality, it’s the academic equivalent of watching paint dry while someone quizzes you on Latin roots. What was meant to be an engaging and educational program has instead become a source of frustration, monotony, and confusion for students everywhere. Simply put: Membean is not helping us learn — it’s helping us lose our will to live (academically speaking).
First, let’s address the core problem with Membean: repetition without purpose. The program constantly throws the same words at you, over and over again, as if repeating “ameliorate” fifty times will magically make you use it in conversation. Instead of engaging students through context, creativity, or real-life application, Membean reduces vocabulary to robotic memorization. It’s like trying to learn a new language by being yelled at by a dictionary.
Second, Membean’s so-called “adaptive learning” feels less like adaptation and more like punishment. The system claims to learn from your progress, but it often gives you words you already know — or worse, words you haven’t seen in weeks — and expects you to recall every tiny prefix and suffix perfectly. Miss one root meaning? Boom, your “accuracy” drops, and the robot voice politely tells you to “keep training.” It’s the only program that can make you feel dumb for knowing too much and too little at the same time.
Third, let’s not ignore the time requirement. Membean sessions are usually graded by minutes spent rather than mastery achieved. That means students end up staring at the screen, clicking aimlessly just to hit the time goal, instead of actually learning. It encourages quantity over quality — more “grind” than growth. It’s ironic that a program meant to build vocabulary seems to have forgotten the meaning of the word efficient.
Lastly, Membean’s design is so painfully outdated it feels like it was programmed before Wi-Fi existed. The interface looks like a science project from 2009, the graphics are dull, and the robotic voice reading definitions could make even the most enthusiastic student fall asleep faster than a monotone lecture on grammar. If learning is supposed to be engaging, Membean missed the memo entirely.
In conclusion, Membean fails at its most important job: making vocabulary learning effective and enjoyable. Instead of inspiring curiosity and comprehension, it promotes burnout and boredom. If education is about helping students understand words and use them meaningfully, then Membean is doing the exact opposite. Until it’s redesigned with actual human engagement in mind, Membean will remain what it’s always been — a digital torture device disguised as a study tool.

21 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Lebron's memboner

So i was doing my membean one day when i got a question wrong (totally wasn't on purpose) and lebron's memboner flew out of the screen and smacked me in the face. he membeaned all over me ans the end

11 September 2025
Unprompted review

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